If you ever have to choose between watching glaciers for a million years or seeing a film written and directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer (Date Movie, Meet The Spartans, Vampires Suck etc), heres a helpful tip: watching ice melt is underrated. An endless succession of references to 2008s movies, TV shows and celebrities, Disaster Movie gives us 10,000 BC, Gladiators and Amy Winehouse jokes before moving on to the likes of Juno, Superbad, Wanted, Hancock, Enchanted etc. Friedberg and Seltzer dont actually satirize anything, they just reward their MTV-saturated, junk food-munching demographic for their pop culture knowledge. Their films arent meant to be viewed by anyone out of their late teens which, given the level of wit on display, is just as well. If you cant mock Hanna Montana or Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, get a day job.
Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'
